Friday, October 30, 2009

In what may prove to be an earth-shaking rupture for the organization, Oscar-winning writer and director Paul Haggis has broken publicly with the Church of Scientology, the Hollywood-centric religion that has recently come under renewed scrutiny for its political positions.

In a scathing letter to the church's celebrity contact, Tommy Davis, Haggis accused the church of hypocrisy and lies, especially regarding its decision to support the anti-gay-marriage proposition on the California ballot last year, Proposition 8.

"I told you I could not, in good conscience, be a member of an organization where gay-bashing was tolerated," Haggis wrote, referring to support for Prop. 8 in the church's San Diego branch. "You promised action. Ten months passed. No action was forthcoming."

OK Mr. Haggis, I'm with you on the whole Prop. 8 thing - but you were OK with the whole part about a galactic emperor named Xenu who had brought frozen aliens to earth 75 million years ago in spaceships that looked like DC-8s and killed them by tossing them into the volcanoes of Hawaii and then collected their souls and brainwashed them and who were then later were assimilated into mankind and that the souls of these aliens plauge man to this very day? You were okay with that part of the story all the way up until the whole Scientology supports Prop. 8 thing, right?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Over ONE MILLION customers served! This is indeed a major milestone in Zaius Nation history. Sure, there have been other Zaius Nation milestones in the past [ 1,2,3,4,5 ], but this milestone is even better! (Mainly because it's a bigger number, of course.) Viva la Revolution!

I would like to thank my running mate and partner in crime politics, Germaine Gregarious, for all of her fine work over the years. Her quick wits and pyrotechnic personality have gotten me out of many a scrape, I must say!

And I would also like to thank Blue Gal, who does so much for all of us bloggers! Thank you, Blue Gal. :o)

Monday, October 26, 2009

The pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 were engaged in a 'heated conversation' about 'airline policies' and were too distracted to realize that their plane flew 150 miles past the Minneapolis airport? Ha!

Friday, October 23, 2009

Remember T. Boone Pickens? he's the corporate raider that spent millions on television ads [ 1,2 ] proclaiming that he was pro-natural gas after being an oil man all his life. He later tried to sucker California voters into a referendum regarding his natural gas fueling station company that would have benefited Pickens' company to the exclusion of almost all other clean-vehicle fuels and technologies.

Mr. Pickens is the man that gave millions of dollars to George Bush and the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. He also offered a million dollars to anyone able to dispute any claims made by the Swift Boat Vets. John Kerry sent Pickens a letter accepting the challenge. In response to Kerry's acceptance of the challenge, Pickens issued a letter narrowing the original challenge and changing the rules of his original offer.

Now the "reformed" oil man is complaining that the Iraqi government has awarded contracts to foreign companies, particularly Chinese firms, to develop Iraq's vast reserves while Pickens and other American oil companies have mostly been shut out.

"They're opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world... We're entitled to it," Pickens said of Iraq’s oil. "Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars."

It's appalling that thousands of American soldiers' lives have been lost, just as it is appaling that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives in the Iraq war. It's loathsome, offensive and disgusting that an unsavory character like T. Boone Pickens is now trying to cash in on the lives of America's fallen soldiers. thinkprogress.org

Monday, October 19, 2009

Play the great new game "The Separation of Church and State" that I made with my good friend Derk the Jerk over at Man-Eating Cheeseburger. The object of the game is to keep the Church Side Guys (in black suits) from entering the State building, and the State Side Guys (in grey suits) from entering the Church building by picking them up and moving them back to their own side. Make sure you don't grab them before they have crossed the border, or you will lose a few points!

Making guest appearances are Sarah Palin (representing the State), and Scientologist Tom Cruise and Jesus on a dinosaur (representing factions of the Church), the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cheney-Cthulhu. Also, when you see the State smuggling super secret documents to the Church, click on them quickly to make them explode! Scoring is tabulated using the most confusing methods possible.

It looks really easy for about first 15 seconds or so, and then it just gets crazy - This game gives you an idea of what the folks over at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have to put up with on a daily basis! My best score was three scandals, and I have never gotten more than 2 two of the little paper airplanes. This version is reduced slightly to fit on my blog. You can play it full sized at this link.

No time for blogging today! I am too busy attending to important issues regarding the status of my nutritional well being. (I just had a call from a charity asking me to donate some of my clothes to starving, poor people. "Bah!" I told them. "Any person who could fit into my clothes is most certainly not starving!") In the meantime, you can watch this scary video of The Heffalumps and Woozles Song.(I think that they are illegal aliens, and they are after our honey! somebody better tell Lou Dobbs...)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Check out this swell video game called 'Senate Finace Committee' that I made with my good friend Derk the Jerk over at Man-Eating Cheeseburger.(keep your cursor inside the game, or you can't move your senator!)

Friday, October 09, 2009

On Nov. 1, a law in Oklahoma will go into effect that will collect personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and post them on a public website. Implementing the measure will "cost $281,285 the first year and $256,285 each subsequent year. Here are the first eight questions that women will have to reveal:

1. Date of abortion2. County in which abortion performed3. Age of mother4. Marital status of mother(married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)5. Race of mother6. Years of education of mother(specify highest year completed)7. State or foreign country of residence of mother8. Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother(Live Births, Miscarriages, Induced Abortions)

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

I am sorry to hear that Tom Delay has bowed out of "Dancing With the Stars". [ 1,2,3 ] I actually liked Tom Delay's Samba rendition of "Why Can't We Be Friends". When he first came out and 'shook his booty', I didn't realize at first that he was doing that to show the GOP emblem on his back. I thought he was just doing that for an extra-creepy 'embarrassing-uncle-that-the-family-doesn't-talk-about-anymore' effect, as he had done in his previous performance.

As I began to realize the message that was being conveyed was one of peace between the two political parties, I have to admit that I was kind of taken aback. Also, there was a certain degree of reality in the metaphor that they were trying to create on stage, and I have to commend Delay for his attempt to deliver a bipartisan message.

Delay was dressed as one fourth of a barbershop quartet with a GOP symbol of an elephant on his back, a cultural reference that only those members of the audience that are over 65 would probably understand. In this particular outfit, I felt that his costume did a really good job of representing his party and how they are viewed by the American public right now.

His dancing partner, Cheryl Burke, wore a blue dress with white stars and the Democratic symbol of a donkey on her dress. True to form to the metaphor created by the dance number, the Democrat was younger, hipper, better looking, and did all of the work while the Republican got all of the attention.

I had not really enjoyed their previous dance number to the song "Wild Thing". Cheryl was dressed as sort of a hot samba goddess in leopard prints and a sexy bikini, while Delay was dressed as a rather frightening polyester gaucho. (I am not really sure that anybody should be allowed to wear that much fluorescent brown.) While Cheryl may be able to pull off the concept of 'Wild', I think Delay sort of came off rather tame and out of place in that particular number. Tom Delay is about as 'wild' as a crooked hedgefund banker on holiday in the Hamptons.

Monday, October 05, 2009

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is going to be one of 12 women to be featured in the 2010 Great American Conservative Women Calendar, which was created to act as a fundraising tool for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. [ 1,2,3 ]

Personally, I'm gonna wait until the Islamo-Fascist version comes out...

Sunday, October 04, 2009

I would like to thank Kulkuri of Yooper in Crackerland for awarding me the coveted One Lovely Blog Award! I am afraid that I have been remiss in my blog meme duties as of late, and I intend to start making up for that in the coming weeks.

The rules for this fine award are:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.

2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

No time for blogging today! Germaine Gregarious and I have invited a few democratic members of congress from the Senate Finance Committee over for tea this afternoon...

Ms. Gregarious and I just wanted to have a little chat with them about the recent turn of events regarding the vote for the public option amendment of the Senate Finance version of the health care bill. [ 1,2,3,4,5,6 ]

Ah, The senator has a sweet tooth!

In the meantime, might I suggest that you contact them yourself and tell them what you think of their recent actions, now that we know which Democrats are for the public option and which Democrats want to protect the insurance industry at the expense of the American people.

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has received nearly $8 million in donations from pharmaceutical and health insurance companies. His former chief of staff is now a health industry lobbyist. He voted against both amendments. He's a total douche. Write him today!

Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) has received about $4 million in health industry donations. Like Baucus, Lincoln's former chief of staff is now a health industry lobbyist. She voted against both amendments. She is a healthcare industry trough feeder. Write her today!

Kent Conrad (D-ND) has received around $3 million in health industry donations. Like Baucus, Conrad's former chief of staff is now a health industry lobbyist. He voted against both amendments. He's just another health insurance corporate pigboy. Write him today!

Bill Nelson (D-FL) has recieved around $2.5 million in health industry donations. He voted against the public option amendment offered by Nelson Rockefeller, but voted in favor of the more cautious public option proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer. Tell him to get on the ball!

Tom Carper (D-DE) has received around $1.5 million in health industry donations. He voted against the public option amendment offered by Nelson Rockefeller, but voted in favor of the more cautious public option proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer. Tell him to get on the ball!

Dr. Zira, I must caution you. Experimental brain surgery on these creatures is one thing, and I'm all in favor of it. But to suggest that we can learn anything about the simian nature from a study of man is sheer nonsense. Man is a menace, a walking pestilence. He eats up his food supply in the forest, then migrates to our green belts and ravages our crops. The sooner he is exterminated, the better. It's a question of simian survival.